Indiana Jones 'Friend'

We don't normally feature the 'friend' size shop display figures on this blog (i.e. the ones with longer legs and proportioned like the Jack Stone figures and not proper minifigures) but I thought this one was worth the web space!

I spotted this one on the top of a retail shelf in 'The Big Shop' in LEGOLAND Windsor.

I don't know why they continue to do figures like this when there are no minifigures like this in current sets, why can't we have a proper minifigure? Anyway, enough of me moaning about that, it is Indiana Jones after all!

More pics from Galeria Kaufhof !!

After searching around the web for more pics I found these in from Kelley's Picasa photo page.

You can see the huge size of the LEGO window presence in this shot!This photo shows an an amazing Cargo Train! (Looks to be 10:1 scale). I would love to see more photos of this and want to see how they have done the boxcar you can just see on the left of the photo.
There is also these that are similar to a previous post, but thought they were worth including anyway.

Life On Mars Alien

Not the greatest of quality pictures because I cropped it out of another photo, but this Life On Mars alien was on display in the big shop in the Windsor LEGOLAND in 2002. The scale looks to be about 10-12:1.

New Shop Display Figure Size!

I spotted these pictures in Gracecewu's flickr gallery recently.

As well as the 'Friends' scaled figures, there are some new properly proportioned figures I haven't seen at this scale before. They look to be about 12:1 if I am seeing it correctly.

There are also parts of a Fire & Police Staion and also the police helicopter in the same scale, but bizarrely a smaller scaled Fire Engine! This really must be a very large display to see in real life and is apparently in Königstrasse Street in Stuttgart and it might be exclusively a LEGO store, but I don't think there is a brand store there?

This is great news and hopefully means a much needed move away from the old 'Friends' scale and back to proper minifigs like they used to use for shop displays.

If anyone else has pictures of this type of figure we would love to hear from you.

EDIT: After a bit of searching on the net I found that this display is actually in a department store called Galeria Kaufhof.

Another 20x Scale Minifig!

Another fantastic classic Minifig at 20x scale. This one is in fantastic condition, hardly any fading and the colours are still very bright.

From the Archive 4

Another page from Bricks 'N' Pieces Magazine.

Hamleys London.

This Exo-Force Mec has been built to the scale 9:1 and stood in Hamleys in London. The minifig inspired me to build my figures to this same scale.

From the Archive 3

This display was part of the LEGO World Show 1984. I used to travel to Milton Keynes to see these exhibitions each year (long before they had a LEGO Shop).

These figures are smaller than 'Archie', but like him, the model makers had to use red bricks instead of brown as it was not available in large quantities at the time.

Fabulous Collection.

ogretzky99's Collection of large minfigs and bricks.

See more here LINK.